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This isn’t boding too well for the play offs is it. Crap form, can’t beat a top half side and most people predicting we’re going to struggle at home against a play off contender.

You lads of that era had an unbelievable few years. FA cup win, promotion, league cup final, European tours, finishing second, 84 at Fratton, it’s just a shame we never won more, should have won the FA cup again in 84 really, Ipswich won the UEFA no reason why we couldn’t have. Plus it was all before football became a corporate machine for a TV audience. sadly I was that little bit too young for it all. That period of 76-85 has to be the best period in our history by some distance, apart from now obviously.

People now wanting Manning to be back in the starting line up, seen it all now

People moaned Martin didn’t have a plan b, well this is it. Shall we go back to plan A?

So all of you lot whinging about Martin not having a plan B, are you now saying that his plan B is shit and want to go back to plan A which got us 25 unbeaten?

Looking forward to Stephens further development as our Trent-Arnold in his hybrid role. Baz will be full of confidence after a clean sheet. The midfield will be confident at the confidence seeping out of every pore of our defence which should free up our attackers for a masterclass. I can’t see anything other than 70% possession minimum

80% possession 😍

Yeah but we’ve only lost one in three, if we lose one in three during the play offs we could go up as long as the one isn’t the final.

We really arent. We have an identity and a philosophy, not all shit creeks are bad one. Imagine being up a shit creek where you’re playing entertaining football, proud of what you’re seeing. Imagine that and cheer up you sad fuck

We seem to certainly lead in breaking things that aren’t broken

It’s good job daleks aren’t real as he’d have been exterminated a long time ago

I think they had a strong finish to the season where they narrowly missed out on the play offs. I believe this was put down to Russball finally clicking with the team. The exactly opposite of what’s happened to us so wonder what’ll be the excuse this season.

I’m surprised they’re surprised though. His track record was there for all to see before we went and got him. His teams concede a lot of goals, always have. As things stand he doesn’t look like the man to get us up and he certainly ain’t the man to keep us up.

If you lose a game 3-2 how does conceding one of those three goals not contribute to you losing the game? Anyone else not get what you’re on about?

This is nuts https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-telegraph/20240405/281513641173194

Yep we will get absolutely murdered if we go up. Conceding 51 goals with players like THB and KWP in the back 4 is unbelievable. We’d concede over 100 if we went up

Congratulations @saint1977 want to take your place in the CoT?

how does conceding a goal in a game you lose by one goal not contribute to losing a game? You're going to have to explain that one The third goal, Player almost on the penalty spot is allowed all day to fall over whilst 4 players stood watching not reacting, nothing to do with dis-organisation. You need to watch the game again as i did notice the other day you said we conceded the 2nd and 3rd goals after Bree got sent off.

I wonder if anyone will quote the fact he's been statistically the worst keeper in the division for the second season running.

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you keep blaming this. Bree was sent off with 5 minutes left plus 7 minutes of injury time. We conceded in the last seconds of that due to our inept defending where a player could miss the ball, fall over in the penalty area and still recover to get a tame shot in whilst 4 players stood there watching. That's was zip all to do with Bree being sent off it was shocking defending. Like the first goal where Bree sliced his clearance then lost his man, shit goalkeeping too. Then there was the second one where an Ipswich player is completely unmarked in the penalty area to score. 3 pieces of U10s defending and 3 goals. You can blame Baz as well as his part in it was shite too but for all three goals the Ipswich players shouldn't even be able to get shots away like they did. Losing had zip all to do with Bree being sent off it had everything to do with poor defending and goalkeeping

So the premier league creates a monster where staying in the league to get the riches on offer is all that matters to a lot of clubs. But by clubs doing what they can to stay so they can at least try and complete they’re going to deduct them points thus relegating them anyway? Meanwhile clubs at the top can do what they want and get away with it. Game is fucked beyond belief.

we have teams in 7th and 8th at home on consecutive Tuesday so surely not even we can screw this up? We play Coventry next week currently in 7th 14 points below us if we win that even if we lose Saturday and they win they’ll be 14 points behind us and they’ll have 5 to play. So we’d then have to lose every game and them win every game to over take us.

It’s a shame Bree is suspended as it’ll mean Walker-Peters will play for sure. It’ll be interesting see after Brees shite clearance then losing his man for the first goal Monday if Martin drops him applying the same logic he did to KWP

Yep, it’s been conceding late goals, soft goals and failing to hold onto leads that are costing us not having another striker who can score 20+ to make a us win games 4-3 if I was manager of a team at any level I’d start by having a competent, solid goalkeeper, in front of them two central defenders whose job it is to defend, put their bodies on the line, get blocks in, tackles mark properly, in front of them a strong holding midfielder, unless they were injured or their form fell off a cliff they’d start every game and then build everything else around them.